Get Well Soon

Dianne Abbott has not had a good election but the vitriol with which the press and twitter have picked up on it is clearly racist and politically motivated. It was announced yesterday that she is ill, and will be stepping down temporarily as shadow home affairs spokesperson.

I look at the story and hope she get's well soon and start with Jack Monroe's defence of her superb record.

Diane Abbott has been diagnosed with a “serious, long-term condition”, shadow minister Barry Gardiner has said. The Labour Party announced on Wednesday morning that Ms Abbott was being replaced as Labour's shadow home secretary during a “period of her ill health”.

Diane Abbott as Home Secretary? It’s become yet another parroted Tory scare slogan, as if we were being asked to put Katie Hopkins in charge of the Prevent strategy, or gift Jeremy Clarkson the presidency of the British Caravan Club.